Compensation for OSU assistants tops $3M

9:16 PM,
Dec. 18, 2012

Alabama's Kirby Smart makes almost $1 million in his job as defensive coordinator.

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Steve Berkowitz and Jodi Upton
USA TODAY Sports

The average major-college football assistant coach now earns roughly $200,000, a USA TODAY Sports analysis finds.

That means NCAA Bowl Subdivision assistant coaches joined their bosses in seeing their compensation for the 2012 season increase by more than 10 percent over last season. Head coaches' pay went up a little faster than assistants' in the past year. But since USA TODAY Sports began surveying assistant coaches' compensation in 2009, assistants are making about 29% more and head coaches about 21 percent more.